Were you at the school to take the photo, @Listlad ? I am guessing you had something to say to the staff if you were. Rightly so. I most certainly would have.

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No. A lot of school / class photos are taken as a matter of routine and posted in a special site for parents to view. I have of course cropped the picture to remove the kids themselves.

It is of course difficult to tackle stuff like this head on when your own kid is at the school. However I am hoping to bring this up at the local PPG meetings. The number of times my daughter says she has pizza chips and cake for lunch is worrying. As she is 6 it is difficult to work out if what she says is true. On this occasion the school supplied photos.

Wow, that's just terrible... and experts still can't figure out what's causing the rise of diabetes and obesity. I would not be happy if that was my kids lunch, but what can you do to change this?

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To be honest, I am astounded that the kids are fed that in schools. I just found out they each had a chocolate biscuit for pudding.

For us as a family I think the short term solution is a packed lunch made up by us, containing foods that do not all comprise of carbohydrates. Commencing after the half term holidays. Those bread rolls do contain tuna (can be seen in another shot) but the amount of tuna is particularly small.

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No. A lot of school / class photos are taken as a matter of routine and posted in a special site for parents to view. I have of course cropped the picture to remove the kids themselves.

It is of course difficult to tackle stuff like this head on when your own kid is at the school. However I am hoping to bring this up at the local PPG meetings. The number of times my daughter says she has pizza chips and cake for lunch is worrying. As she is 6 it is difficult to work out if what she says is true. On this occasion the school supplied photos.

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Actually should be easiest if your child is at the school - easy to contact them and you could stand as a parent governor. Our school sends home the lunch menu and it is accessible on the caterer’s website so parents can see what child is selecting from.

Actually should be easiest if your child is at the school - easy to contact them and you could stand as a parent governor. Our school sends home the lunch menu and it is accessible on the caterer’s website so parents can see what child is selecting from.

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We get the lunch menu too. But it doesn’t match the photo or what the little one says she has.

On confronting the school, I don’t want to create friction that might impact our child in other ways. So my gambit is to go through the local PPG where they are just now highlighting communication with the local community and then also via school nurse etc.

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@Listlad, I would think the easiest and quickest route to solving the food in school issue would be via the school governors. Simply express your concerns to them, or even apply to be a governor yourself. If you wwait until the PPG and Clinical Commissioning Group in your area get on to it your daughter will have already sat her GCSEs.